Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 81 53
Rank change year-on-year -35 -28 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,304 1,666 3,461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.82% 3.64% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 3.90% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 875 1,027 2,755
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,950 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +11.11% -12.90%
75th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £113,979 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.15% +5.42% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56,435 42,676 68,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.59% 93.36% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 33,915 21,866 52,740
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,329
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,463 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -26 1,192 £77,500 +3.33% 710
London +9 667 £87,500 - 281
Work from Home -24 573 £75,000 +4.18% 517
UK excluding London -99 535 £70,000 +2.15% 529
North of England -36 244 £70,000 - 148
North West -34 120 £70,000 - 81
South East -116 101 £75,000 +11.11% 156
Yorkshire -37 100 £70,932 -1.47% 42
South West -67 63 £67,500 -1.50% 67
Midlands -52 56 £67,500 +3.85% 72
East of England -3 36 £67,500 +17.39% 51
West Midlands -21 32 £70,000 - 46
Scotland -81 27 £62,500 -16.67% 27
North East -9 24 £67,500 +35.00% 26
East Midlands -53 23 £67,500 +3.85% 26
Wales -15 7 £55,200 +17.02% 17
Northern Ireland -36 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (2.15%) Apache Spark
2 23 (1.76%) Apache
2 23 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (1.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 20 (1.53%) Confluence
4 14 (1.07%) JBoss
5 13 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.84%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.69%) CMS
8 8 (0.61%) IIS
9 7 (0.54%) Appian
10 5 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.38%) nginx
11 3 (0.23%) Camunda
11 3 (0.23%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.23%) Liferay
11 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.077%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.077%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 15 (1.15%) Maya
3 12 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.31%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 14 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.69%) Endur
3 8 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.31%) SAP FS
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.077%) Actimize
7 1 (0.077%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.077%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.077%) Quorum
7 1 (0.077%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.077%) Shopify
7 1 (0.077%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 720 (55.21%) AWS
2 590 (45.25%) Azure
3 277 (21.24%) GCP
4 236 (18.10%) Serverless
5 171 (13.11%) SaaS
6 120 (9.20%) GitHub
7 104 (7.98%) Amazon S3
8 102 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
9 101 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
10 95 (7.29%) Amazon EKS
11 66 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
11 66 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 63 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
13 52 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
14 48 (3.68%) PaaS
15 45 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 45 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (3.22%) OpenShift
17 34 (2.61%) Power Platform
18 33 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.30%) Broadband
2 13 (1.00%) HTTP
3 9 (0.69%) AMQP
4 6 (0.46%) Internet
4 6 (0.46%) Network Security
5 5 (0.38%) MQTT
6 4 (0.31%) DHCP
6 4 (0.31%) DNS
6 4 (0.31%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.31%) SNMP
6 4 (0.31%) WAN
7 3 (0.23%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.23%) Firewall
7 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 2 (0.15%) LTE
8 2 (0.15%) Modbus
8 2 (0.15%) SSL
8 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.077%) TCAP
9 1 (0.077%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (14.11%) NoSQL
2 169 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
3 135 (10.35%) MongoDB
4 122 (9.36%) SQL Server
5 66 (5.06%) MySQL
6 64 (4.91%) DynamoDB
7 62 (4.75%) Relational Database
8 50 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.99%) Redis
10 29 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 29 (2.22%) Big Data
11 26 (1.99%) BigQuery
12 25 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.76%) RDBMS
14 20 (1.53%) Power BI
15 16 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (1.15%) Tableau
17 14 (1.07%) DB2
18 13 (1.00%) Pinecone
19 9 (0.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 171 (13.11%) Git
2 122 (9.36%) Jenkins
3 75 (5.75%) GitLab
4 53 (4.06%) JIRA
5 51 (3.91%) TeamCity
6 38 (2.91%) Cucumber
7 37 (2.84%) JUnit
8 35 (2.68%) Selenium
9 28 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 24 (1.84%) CircleCI
11 23 (1.76%) Bitbucket
12 20 (1.53%) Mockito
13 19 (1.46%) Maven
14 16 (1.23%) JMeter
15 14 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
16 11 (0.84%) Vite
17 10 (0.77%) Postman
18 9 (0.69%) REST Assured
19 8 (0.61%) git-flow
19 8 (0.61%) LoadRunner
General
1 392 (30.06%) Finance
2 382 (29.29%) Social Skills
3 158 (12.12%) Banking
4 108 (8.28%) Law
5 100 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 68 (5.21%) Retail
8 60 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 59 (4.52%) Financial Institution
10 48 (3.68%) Telecoms
11 43 (3.30%) Back Office
12 31 (2.38%) Games
13 26 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.84%) Billing
15 23 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (1.38%) Advertising
16 18 (1.38%) Legal
17 14 (1.07%) French Language
18 13 (1.00%) Dutch Language
18 13 (1.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 435 (33.36%) Developer
2 339 (26.00%) Senior
3 258 (19.79%) Software Engineer
4 221 (16.95%) Architect
5 163 (12.50%) Lead
6 118 (9.05%) Senior Developer
7 111 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
8 110 (8.44%) Java Developer
9 109 (8.36%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (6.75%) Senior Software Engineer
11 87 (6.67%) Java Engineer
12 81 (6.21%) .NET Developer
13 54 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 53 (4.06%) Java Software Engineer
15 48 (3.68%) Lead Developer
16 47 (3.60%) Software Developer
17 43 (3.30%) Principal Engineer
18 42 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
19 40 (3.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 39 (2.99%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (23.08%) React
2 297 (22.78%) .NET
3 262 (20.09%) RESTful
4 232 (17.79%) Spring
5 211 (16.18%) REST
6 205 (15.72%) Spring Boot
7 197 (15.11%) Kafka
8 186 (14.26%) Node.js
9 121 (9.28%) AngularJS
10 102 (7.82%) .NET Core
11 80 (6.13%) HTML
12 73 (5.60%) gRPC
13 67 (5.14%) .NET Framework
14 65 (4.98%) CSS
14 65 (4.98%) RabbitMQ
15 59 (4.52%) ASP.NET
16 57 (4.37%) Middleware
17 52 (3.99%) Django
18 47 (3.60%) Hibernate
18 47 (3.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 371 (28.45%) Cloud Native
2 212 (16.26%) Distributed Systems
3 122 (9.36%) Enterprise Software
4 105 (8.05%) Product Ownership
5 57 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.99%) Data Structures
8 33 (2.53%) Algorithms
9 32 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (2.07%) Blockchain
10 27 (2.07%) Over-the-Top Content
10 27 (2.07%) Video\Live Streaming
10 27 (2.07%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.99%) AI Agents
11 26 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
12 18 (1.38%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.30%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.23%) IoT
15 13 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.22%) Linux
2 21 (1.61%) Windows
3 19 (1.46%) Android
4 10 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.38%) CentOS
5 5 (0.38%) Debian
5 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.23%) Unix
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.077%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (48.47%) CI/CD
2 572 (43.87%) Agile
3 517 (39.65%) DevOps
4 487 (37.35%) Software Engineering
5 358 (27.45%) Containerisation
6 305 (23.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 284 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
8 281 (21.55%) Mentoring
9 249 (19.10%) Event-Driven
10 247 (18.94%) AI
11 234 (17.94%) Test Automation
12 228 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 207 (15.87%) Computer Science
14 168 (12.88%) Infrastructure as Code
15 162 (12.42%) Scrum
16 158 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
17 154 (11.81%) TDD
18 148 (11.35%) Architectural Patterns
19 146 (11.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 145 (11.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 460 (35.28%) Java
2 332 (25.46%) Python
3 282 (21.63%) SQL
4 264 (20.25%) C#
4 264 (20.25%) JavaScript
5 225 (17.25%) TypeScript
6 100 (7.67%) Go
7 34 (2.61%) PHP
8 33 (2.53%) Scala
9 30 (2.30%) Bash
10 28 (2.15%) C++
11 25 (1.92%) C
11 25 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 23 (1.76%) Ruby
12 23 (1.76%) Shell Script
13 21 (1.61%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.15%) Rust
15 13 (1.00%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.61%) Bicep
17 6 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 214 (16.41%) Degree
2 145 (11.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 112 (8.59%) Security Cleared
4 79 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 67 (5.14%) AWS Certification
6 48 (3.68%) Master's Degree
7 45 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 43 (3.30%) TOGAF Certification
9 38 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.23%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.07%) CISSP
13 12 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.77%) CISM
14 10 (0.77%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.77%) PMP
15 7 (0.54%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.46%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.21%) QA
2 29 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 26 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.84%) GDPR
5 19 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.92%) NIST
7 11 (0.84%) SOC 2
8 10 (0.77%) NCSC
9 8 (0.61%) EMIR
10 6 (0.46%) GRC
10 6 (0.46%) IFRS
10 6 (0.46%) SLA
11 5 (0.38%) SEPA
12 4 (0.31%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.31%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.31%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.15%) PSD2
14 2 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 402 (30.83%) Docker
2 15 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.31%) Firmware
3 4 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 406 (31.13%) Kubernetes
2 230 (17.64%) Terraform
3 80 (6.13%) Grafana
4 61 (4.68%) Ansible
5 33 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.99%) Kibana
7 14 (1.07%) Argo
7 14 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.61%) HP Fortify
9 6 (0.46%) Puppet
10 4 (0.31%) Cilium
10 4 (0.31%) Istio
11 3 (0.23%) Nagios
11 3 (0.23%) Rancher
12 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.077%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.077%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 150 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.45%) Oracle
3 48 (3.68%) Google
4 27 (2.07%) Typelevel
5 19 (1.46%) OpenAI
6 18 (1.38%) SAP
7 15 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (1.07%) BiZZdesign
8 14 (1.07%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.07%) Software AG
8 14 (1.07%) Splunk
9 13 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.00%) Guidewire
10 12 (0.92%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.84%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.77%) IBM
13 9 (0.69%) Databricks
14 8 (0.61%) Fortinet